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Mr. Moss. Mr. President, I support S. 586. It is a good bill. Certainh% 

 the coastal States need Federal assistance, as the bill says, to study, 

 plan for manage and control the impact of energy resource develop- 

 ment wliicli affects the coastal zone. 



I want to call the attention of my colleagiies to the fact that it is not 

 just the coastal zone which is experiencing the impact of energy re- 

 source development. Throughout the West there are energy supply 

 projects springing up like mushrooms after a heavy rain : four coal 

 gasification plants slated for construction in New ^Mexico ; 11,000 meg- 

 awatts of new electric generating capacit^y heading for construction in 

 southern Utah; new coal mines opening in Wyoming, Montana, the 

 Dakotas, and so on. Some of these projects are still in planning stages ; 

 some are on the verge of construction, and some have already started 



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In the sparsely settled areas of the West, it is particularly difficult 



for communities to find planning money to studj' the coming impacts. 

 It is impossible for them to find early financing to build the community 

 infrastructure needed to serve new population influxes. Sewers, water, 

 roads, schools and hospitals, police and fire protection all have to be 

 in place long before they can be paid for with tax revenues from the 

 new energy facility. 



So the Senate must return to the principle embodied in S. 586 later 

 this year. This is legislation more broadly based than coastal zone en- 

 ergy siting. Considerations both of equity and need dictate we produce 

 for the whole country a program of financial assistance on energy im- 

 pact problems comparable to tliat which we will provide in the coastal 

 States with this legislation today. 



I have drafted legislation which meets that goal, which I will have 

 ready to introduce after the August recess. I will be speaking to a 

 group of national experts on front-end financing who are gathering 

 August 14 and 15 in Utah to consider the bill which I have drafted 

 and to suggest ways of improving it. I solicit the support of all my 

 colleagues, and particularly those from Western and coastal States, to 

 find a solution to the problem of meeting the needs of the States which 

 will be providing energy for the Nation. 



Mr. Bellmon. Will the Senator yield ? 



Mr. Moss. I am happy to yield to the Senator from Oklahoma. 



Mr. Bellmon. I have been informed by the comments of the Sen- 

 ator from Utah but if I understand properly, he is talking about ap- 

 plying the provisions of this bill to all States ? 



Mr. Moss. The same general principle. I support this bill and I 

 think it is timely and needed. But I think we must not overlook the 

 fact that there are a lot of other areas with similar problems. 



Mr. Bellmon. Would the Senator agree that we have a better cliance 

 of getting legislation like this to apply to the rest of the country if we 

 had it altogether in the same package ? 



Mr. Moss. I would not be averse to that. 



Mr. Bellmon. That is the reason I think we ought not take this bill 

 until we take care of the needs of the rest of the country at the same 

 time. 



Mr. Stevens. If the Senator from Utah will yield, I hope tlie Senate 

 will not follow that concept. The fact that we thought of a good ap- 

 proach to provide front end money for tl lose places that are about to 



